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That was the main reason for the big hype around Memristors 15 years ago. High density, high speed persistent memory to completely remove the need for hdd/ssds,
by Salgat 4mo ago
That was the main reason for the big hype around Memristors 15 years ago. High density, high speed persistent memory to completely remove the need for hdd/ssds, potentially even removing the need for external memory altogether. So frustrating that it still seems like we're a long ways from that becoming reality. There's some renewed interest in Memristors as they can simulate neural network connections in models, so maybe the funding will return for it.
- zozbot234 4mo agoThe one example of persistent memory that managed to reach the mass market was Intel Optane/3dXPoint (still popular today among people looking to save on RAM costs) and that used a kind of phase-change memory, which is but tangentially related to memristors. ReRAM is somewhat closer, but it's also been less successful so far.
- ForOldHack 4mo agoWell, back in the day... The MacIIfx had video memory, ( dual ported ram ) that could be read and written to out of different ports. Wicked fast. It 486DX2s more than a year to catch up.
- Melatonic 4mo agoOptane was still much slower than Ram. And not that much faster than NVME (theoretically)